A MAN who armed himself with a knife after a drunken row and attacked two young men in Blackburn town centre has been sent to jail for two and a half years.
A court was told that John Hollern could remember very little of events that night, and not even sustaining a serious hand injury himself.
Hollern, 34, of Livesey Branch Road, Blackburn, pleaded guilty to two charges of unlawful wounding at Preston Crown Court.
The two victims, Martin McKay and Lee Jepson, were attacked in the early hours of May 1 this year.
Mr Jepson was treated for cuts. Mr McKay suffered a five to six centimetre cut to his leg in trying to defend himself.
Defence barrister Miss Judith McCullough told Preston Crown Court: "There was clearly hostility between the two groups.
"The defendant is very ashamed of the way he accepts he acted on that night."
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